About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 61. Chapters: Causal fallacies, Relevance fallacies, Verbal fallacies, Correlation does not imply causation, No true Scotsman, Straw man, Naturalistic fallacy, Argument from ignorance, Slippery slope, Gambler's fallacy, Equivocation, Ignoratio elenchi, Loaded question, Inverse gambler's fallacy, Amphibology, Argumentum ad baculum, Special pleading, Groupthink, Appeal to nature, Blind men and an elephant, Evidence of absence, Biblical literalism, Rationalization, Complex question, Moralistic fallacy, Double-barreled question, Self-justification, Phantom of Heilbronn, Cherry picking, Fallacy of composition, Circular reference, Base rate fallacy, Etymological fallacy, Argument from silence, Regression fallacy, Chronological snobbery, Bulverism, Hasty generalization, Post hoc ergo propter hoc, Continuum fallacy, Appeal to consequences, Circular cause and consequence, Name calling, Texas sharpshooter fallacy, Argument to moderation, Circular reporting, False analogy, Two wrongs make a right, Informal fallacy, Wrong direction, The Great Magnet, Invincible ignorance fallacy, Accident, Loki's Wager, Fallacy of division, Fallacy of the single cause, Furtive fallacy, Animistic fallacy, Proof by assertion, Ad nauseam, Qur'anic literalism, McNamara fallacy, Fallacy of prescience, I'm entitled to my opinion, Questionable cause, Slothful induction, Unknown Root, Absence paradox. Excerpt: "Correlation does not imply causation" (related to "ignoring a common cause" and questionable cause) is a phrase used in science and statistics to emphasize that correlation between two variables does not automatically imply that one causes the other (though correlation is necessary for linear causation in the absence of any third and countervailing causative variable, and can indicate possible causes or areas for further investigation; in other words, correla...
